Well finally got to my final destination (DTW)
Basically I had booked a hidden city out of DCA which I missed and there were no more flights going directly to my DTW and continuing on to MKE that day so I had to practically kill a close relative (by that I mean convince Delta that he was deathly ill) so that I could go visit him in DTW tonight while he was still alive and they gave me a voucher to bring to DTW tomorrow and they'll book me a ticket to MKE when I present it
The problem was the gate agent in DCA was unaware of this and thought the ticket agent did this because that's all she saw available so while I was in the lounge she canceled my ticket and rebooked me to MKE through ATL
but another rendition of my sob story did the trick and with many apologies she rebooked me to DTW